Re: Where are rpms installed?

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On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:53:31PM -0700, rebel student wrote:
> Hi folks:
> I downloaded a webmin rpm for the RH9. 
> I place all rpms I download at /usr/local/rpms
> and then from /usr/local/rpms I do
> rpm -ivh xyz.rpm
> However, when I go to the shell (even new shell), and
> type the name  
> $xyz
> it does not run.
> When I see by doing which xyz it says not able to find
> xyz at /usr/bin , /usr/sbin etc etc or 
> $whereis xyz 
> nothing appears.
> How to do this and where are all the bianries stored
> when I do rpm -ivh, in general I am ignorant how this
> rpm is different from when we download .tar.gz thing
> and do the whole stuff manually
> Thanks in advance
> Regards
> Rebel
One more thing. If you run:
rpm -qlp xyz.rpm

It will list all the files in the rpm and where they are going to be
put.
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